Continuous sanctions prevented Iran from acquiring many heavy weapons, such as tanks and aircraft.

The sanctions prevent the United States or private businesses from trading with the institutes.

Those sanctions would prevent them from working on the international space station project.

The sanctions have prevented Iraq from selling oil on the world market in any significant way since its invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

This impressive growth has come from a base of almost nothing, since sanctions during the apartheid era prevented any exports.

These sanctions prevent the institutions from doing business with the United States.

He added: "The European sanctions will not prevent them from engineering 'value creation' through this investment."

The sanctions 1) prevent Iraq from accessing billions held in foreign banks and 2) embargo all trade.

The enforcement provisions say simply that the sanctions should "prevent and restrain" the monopolist from violating the law.

Military and economic sanctions prevented Iraq from rebuilding its military power.